Burner.



w. E. STADLER.

BURNER. APPLICATION FILED APR.3,1915.

Patented May 2, 1916.

THE COLUMBIA PLANGGRAPH you WASHINGTON. n. c.

WILLIAM EDWARD STADLER, 0F BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA.

BURNER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 2, 1913.

Application filed April 3, 1915. Serial No. 18,911.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, WILLIAM E. STADLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bakersfield, in the county of Kern and State of California, have invented a new and useful Burner, of which the following is a specification.

An object of this invention is to most effectively burn hydrocarbons such as distillate and the like.

Another object is to provide a construc tion which will insure complete gasification of the hydrocarbon.

Another object is to produce a burner having a specially constructed generator so as to give maximum area for heating the hydrocarbons and so as to produce a space above the level of the hydrocarbon in the generator for the collection of vapors and gases produced in the generator.

Another object is the production of a burner of such construction that a plurality of gas jets may be provided one alongside of another, each gas jet having its own generator.

The accompanying drawings illustrate two embodiments of the invention.

Figure 1 is a plan view of one embodiment of the invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an elevation partly in section on line indicated by w 00 Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 4 is a fragmentary longitudinal section on line indicated .by w a Fig. 1.

There is provided one or more one-piece U-shaped tubes 1, each having its terminal legs, 2, 3 in a common vertical plane, the upper leg 9. being substantially horizontal. and the lower leg 3 extending at an angle thereto and provided with a gas jet 4 adjacent its closed end 5. Each upper leg 2 is connected by a nipple 6 tothe single orifice of a generator which is formed by a flat bottom 7 and a dome-shaped or conical top 8. The advantage of the construction just described is that during operation of the burner the generator cannot become entirely filled with the fuel oil because the flow of gas through the orifice prevents too great a flow of oil to the generator, thus insuring that there will be only a thin film of oil on the bottom of the generator. Furthermore the dome-shaped top directs the gas toward the orifice and also tends to cause the oil to spread radially from the orifice toward the periphery of the gasifying space 18.

The tubes 1 are each provided with a valve 9 which are connected by pipes 10 and T 11 to a supply pipe 12 through which hydrocarbons such as distillate may be fed to the generators. The valves 9 are each provided with a perforated disk 13 having perforations 14, of which any one is designed to accommodate one end ofa locking screw 15 that extends through the valve handle 16 and is provided with a check nut 17 so as to hold the valve handles in the positions to which they may be adjusted.

From the foregoing it is seen that the tubes 1 may be ranged one alongside of another, and in practical operation one or more of the valves 9 will be opened to allow a small quantity of hydrocarbon to flow into the generator or generators to the desired level, for instance, to about the level an indicated in Fig. 3, whereupon said valve or valves will be closed. Then the hydrocarbon in the generator or generators will be initially heated by any well known means, for instance by a torch or the like, not shown, to cause vapors indicated at b Fig. 3 to rise from the surface of the hydrocarbons in the generators and to gasify said vapors in the gasifying space '18 in the upper portion of the generators. The gases thus produced will flow through the nipple 6 into the upper leg 2 and thence through the curved intermediate leg 19 into the lower leg 3 to issue at the gas jet 4, and said gases will then be lighted by the attendant and the heat from the combustion of the gases will in turn maintain the generator at sufiiciently high temperature to cause continuous generation of gases to supply said gas jet. As soon as the gases are ignited at the gas jet 4, the valve connected thereto will be opened sufficiently to admit more of the hydrocarbon to the generator to replace the liquid hydrocarbon that has been gasified by liquid hydrocarbon.

From the foregoing it is clear that the device is very simple and elfective.

What I claim is:

A burner comprising a U-shaped tube closed at one end, a gas jet adjacent the closed end of the tube, a generator having a flat bottom and having a single orifice, and my hand at Bakersfield, California, this a nipple screw-threaded into the tube oppo- 23rd day of March 1915. site the gas jet and screw-threaded into the WILLIAM EDWARD STADLER orifice of the generator, said orifice serving as an inlet for oil to the generator and as In presence ofoutlet for gas from the generator. FRANCES M. ARBoGAsT,

In testlmony whereof, I have hereunto set GENEVIEVE WINGET.

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